Saying all the right things on the managerial merry-go-round
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, David Walker and Charlie Eccleshare convene for another edition of the Adjudication Panel. On the latest agenda: updating the "managerial merry-go-round", analysing Harry Maguire's loaded goal celebration and the horrifying spectacle of a team forming their own guard of honour.
Meanwhile, the panel explore the mandatory things a new manager must say at their unveiling to pass the "spoke very well" test.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:09.5 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.2 | He is, you know. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he fell! |
| 0:14.6 | Brilliant! |
| 0:17.8 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:20.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:21.8 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.4 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:40.3 | It does it tame, and tame, and's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.8 | Frank up the music. |
| 0:43.7 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:47.8 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:51.3 | Updating the managerial merry-go round. |
| 0:55.1 | What must be included when a new manager says all the right things? |
| 1:01.8 | Just what message was Harry McGuire trying to send with his smiley ear-cuping, knee-sliding, ear-blocking goal celebration? |
| 1:06.9 | An unprecedented, game-changing new development in the field of getting in on the act. |
| 1:12.0 | Teams doing their own guard of honour and revealing that game that just keeps appearing in the background of BBC dramas brought to your ears by the athletic this is football clichés |
| 1:18.1 | hello everyone and welcome to episode 112 of the football cliches podcast I'm Adam |
| 1:26.1 | hurry and with me first of all is Charlie Eccleshare. How are you? Good. How are you? Very well, thanks. Huge, huge fortnight or so for pictures of managers being unveiled at their new clubs. I'm anxious to know straight away. If you could choose, if you're, you know, you've just taken a new job in the Premier League, where are you having your photo taken? In what context do you want the first glimpse of you at your new club to be? I think on the pitch. Oh, okay. Yeah. Holding anything? I'm envisioning holding a scarf. I would say scarf over shirt. But I'm, yeah. Yeah, shirt's a bit weird because, I mean, not that I would necessarily be wearing a scarf but I won't be wearing the shirt so no no god no no alongside you is |
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